After studying at the Bartlett School of Architecture in University College London, David Robson was Senior Lecturer in the newly established School of Architecture in Colombo between 1969 and 1972. Back in Europe he worked on the planning of the Federal Polytechnic in Lausanne and between 1973 and 1979 was the Chief Housing Architect for Washington New Town. In the early 1980s, working as adviser on the Sri Lankan government’s “100,000 Houses Programme” under Prime Minister Premadasa, he was responsible for the new town of Rampokunagama and the planning of numerous model villages and self-help housing schemes. Later he recorded this experience in the book Aided-Self Help Housing in Sri Lanka, published in 1983 by HMSO. From 1984 to 2004 he taught at the University of Brighton where he became Professor of Architecture and was later a visiting professor in the National University of Singapore. In 2002 he published Bawa: The Complete Works, and in 2004 curated a major Bawa retrospective in the Deutches Architektur Museum in Frankfurt. These were followed in 2007 by Beyond Bawa and in 2008, Bawa – The Sri Lankan Gardens. In 2009 he published a monograph on Sri Lankan architect C. Anjalendran.
David Robson will be featured in the following events:
Sunday 31 January, 10 AM- 11 AM, Maritime Museum: Anjalendran
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